Monica Ross
Ethical Actions
A Critical Fine Art Practice

Edited by Susan Hiller, Suzanne Treister
Texts by Jorn Ebner, Eric Levi Jacobson, Alexandra M. Kokoli, Esther Leslie, Yve Lomax, Denise Robinson, Monica Ross; photographic documentation by Bernard G. Mills

British artist Monica Ross (1950–2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross’s works from 1970 to 2013, including early feminist collaborative works, drawings made at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp in the 1980s, poster designs for the antinuclear movement, works relating to the writings of Walter Benjamin, and documentation from the sixty performances of Anniversary—an act of memory (2008–13), solo, collective, and multilingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which concluded with a final collaborative performance at the UN in Geneva on the day of Ross’s death. With essays by Esther Leslie, Eric Levi Jacobson, Alexandra M. Kokoli, Denise Robinson, and Yve Lomax, this book is a valuable art-historical document.

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1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
1975–79
Feministo: The Women's Postal Art Event Feministo: The Women's Postal Art Event
1978–80
Fenix (also known as Phoenix) Fenix (also known as Phoenix)
1980s
Feministo/Fenix Composite One hand Tied behind me Feministo/Fenix Composite One hand Tied behind me
1981–84
Sister Seven Sister Seven
1982–84
Greenham Common Sketchbooks Greenham Common Sketchbooks
1984
Unquiet Woman Unquiet Woman
1985
Triple Transformations Triple Transformations
1986
Sea Change Sea Change
1987
Like Gold in the Furnace Like Gold in the Furnace
1987
Fleur de la Lune Fleur de la Lune
1990
This is Not a Photograph This is Not a Photograph
1991
Neither Loaves Nor Fishes Neither Loaves Nor Fishes
1992
Virtual Ritual Virtual Ritual
1992
state of emergency state of emergency
1993
passage passage
1993
SIX DAYS OF MOMENTARY ART SIX DAYS OF MOMENTARY ART
1994
impasse impasse
1994
fall fall
1995
Store House Store House
1996
Nummer 13 Nummer 13
1996–2001
Iris Iris
1997
justfornow (and then) justfornow (and then)
1997–98
Zur Brücke Zur Brücke
2000
valentine valentine
2000
history or not history or not
2000–02
valentine: the inventory valentine: the inventory
2000–10
International Corporation of Lost Structures (ICOLS) International Corporation of Lost Structures (ICOLS)
2001–04
justfornow justfornow
2001–04
Bykermorning: the view from a deserted utopia—a home movie Bykermorning: the view from a deserted utopia—a home movie
2005
Women with Red Umbrellas Women with Red Umbrellas
2005
reading human material reading human material
2005–08
rightsrepeated—an act of memory rightsrepeated—an act of memory
2008
Fallen idyll: the end of a perspective–a home movie Fallen idyll: the end of a perspective–a home movie
2009
House Warming House Warming
2008–13
Anniversary – an act of memory Anniversary – an act of memory